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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.26,0:00:05.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(piano music playing)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.77,0:00:08.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven: We're in the National\NGallery of Washington, D.C.,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.37,0:00:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're looking at Franรงois Boucher's
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.64,0:00:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Venus Consoling Love. This\Nis a painting that probably
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.37,0:00:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dates to 1751 and it's a\Nconfection. Look at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.76,0:00:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beth: It is. We see Venus\Noccupying a diagonal line
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.64,0:00:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the center of the canvas.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.01,0:00:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven: Which reminds us\Nthat it comes out of the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.20,0:00:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beth: Baroque
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.34,0:00:34.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beth: Yeah, lovely nude Venus\Nwho has got her left arm
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.37,0:00:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coming across her body and\Ntrying to steal all the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.00,0:00:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arrows from Cupid, so he can't ...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.47,0:00:41.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven: ... do mischief ...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.39,0:00:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beth: Do mischief making\Npeople fall in love.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.60,0:00:46.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven: The arrow, the spark\Nof desire that he wields.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.81,0:00:49.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beth: Yeah and there's sorts\Nof soft greens and blues
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.39,0:00:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pinks that we associate\Nwith the Rococo style.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.03,0:00:55.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven: There's a willingness\Nto sort of suspend belief
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.89,0:00:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to create a kind of\Nfantasy, to create a kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.70,0:01:01.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,impossible dream-like space.\NLook at this landscape.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.25,0:01:04.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in and out of focus.\NIt dissolves. We have this
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.39,0:01:07.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,large tree here in of the\Ncenter, which is slightly to the
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.37,0:01:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right background, but then\Nthe distant trees as well
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.77,0:01:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ... and there's no\Nreal space in between them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.34,0:01:14.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beth: No, that's not a\Nreal construction of space.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.77,0:01:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven: No, not at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.98,0:01:19.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beth: It's a kind of evoking\Nof nature and landscape.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.07,0:01:21.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven: It's meant to be a kind of playful
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.23,0:01:25.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,indulgent expression of\Nwealth thinned of emotion
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.27,0:01:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of love and desire.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.80,0:01:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beth: And of course,\Nthis was commissioned by
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.31,0:01:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Madame de Pompadour?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.30,0:01:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven: ... who was the\Nmistress of the king
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.84,0:01:35.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's even some\Nsuggestion that it was possibly
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.67,0:01:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her that posed for Venus,\Nalthough I think ...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.00,0:01:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beth: It's just that she's\Na very idealized woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.61,0:01:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven: Yeah, I think\Nthat's probably true,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.06,0:01:45.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it speaks a lot to ... to\Nthe interest of the moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.34,0:01:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, this is a period\Nbefore the French Revolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.08,0:01:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where painting was concerned\Nwith ... with emotion, was
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.67,0:01:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concerned with the kind\Nof indulgence ... was
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.48,0:01:54.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concerned with other\Npleasures of the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.81,0:01:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(piano music playing)